By Chris Reinolds
Green Right Now
Beekeeper Laura Johnson enjoys tending to her buzzing friends, but the real motive behind her hobby is stopping the decline of honey bees.
Bee Colony Collapse Disorder has been threatening bees, and the crops they serve, around the world for the past several years.
So Johnson, an organic gardener in suburban Atlanta, decided it was time to jump into honey.
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July 6th, 2009
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Here’s a tip from fellow blogger Obama Foodorama: Take a quick eco-detour while visiting the National Mall this summer and check out the USDA’s gardens and garden workshops.
USDA staff will be conducting noontime mini-seminars on Fridays at The People’s Garden, installed outside the Ag Department headquarters. Topics will deal with watering, window gardens, attracting wildlife to the garden and of course, the ever-popular and more-work-than-we’d-like-it-to-be composting. You can see the schedule in this USDA press release.
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Related Topics: · Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, BarbaraKesslerBlog, garden advice, Organic gardening, three sisters planting, USDA People's Garden, vegetable gardening
April 29th, 2009
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
The bunnies are bountiful in our backyard this year; they’re large and prolific. They’re rabbits.
So it was with an eye out for trouble that we installed the garden this past weekend. This is a second veggie garden, which we put in to test the Evo Organics handy-dandy Weed Free Garden Watering Blanket.
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Related Topics: · backyard garden, BarbaraKesslerBlog, Evo Organics, irrigation, Local Food, Organic gardening, Trees/Plants/Yard, Water Conservation, weeds
April 1st, 2009
Here are some of the most popular organic gardening titles from Amazon.com:
In this introduction to sustainable landscaping practices, Linda Chalker-Scott addresses the most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. Chalker-Scott offers invaluable advice to gardeners gardeners who have wondered:
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Related Topics: · Books, Eliot Coleman, Organic Food, Organic gardening, Rodale
April 16th, 2008
By Barbara Kessler
Mary Bakatsa is “organic all the way” in her sprawling Austin garden. But that doesn’t mean she simply avoids pesticides and blithely sits back to watch. Organic gardening is more proactive and veteran gardener Bakatsa runs dozens of schemes to nudge nature in the right direction. She places certain plants near others [...]
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Related Topics: · gardening, Mary Bakatsa, Organic gardening
March 3rd, 2007
By Barbara Kessler
You’ve decided to grow vegetables in your under-used backyard. It seems like a worthy goal; it’s green; it’s productive and you’d get some tasty treats for your efforts.
But here’s the rub, you feel like a dork poking around the garden center, trying to pick your way around the chemicals to find the natural [...]
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Related Topics: · John Dromgoole, Organic gardening
— Linda Chalker-Scott